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Coega Hardfig
Corpuscularia lehmannii
Delosperma lehmannii is a succulent plant native to parts of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Sometimes called ice plant, it is grown as a decorative houseplant for its distinctive smooth, angular leaves. The specific epithet lehmannii honors the German professor of botany in Hamburg Johann Georg Christian Lehmann.
Delosperma lehmannii grows in the eastern coastal strip of the Cape Peninsula over an area of about 70 km2 between Coega and Port Elizabeth.
From the article Delosperma lehmannii on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Delosperma lehmannii is a compact plant with glaucous leaves with a characteristic triangular section. It has numerous short, decombing shoots. All parts are hairless. The leaves are forked, at 3 angles. Leaves on shoots up to 4 cm long (mostly 20–25 mm long) and 8–10 mm wide and spaced apart. The flowers are approximately 4 cm in diameter. Six sepals. Translucent white to straw-colored petals, decreasing in length towards the center. Capsules: 6-8 chambers. Seeds: 0.9–1 mm in length, 0.6–0.75 mm wide.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 574055.